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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15456, 19 September 1914, Page 9

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PRODUCT, IK LONDON". Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. Received 12.55 a.m., Sept. 17tb. LONDON, Sept, 17. Butter is quiet. Danish is hardening, colonial nominally unchanged. Chef so is quiet, tlio Government having filled present requirements. ! New Zealand, 72s to 765. Bacon is dull. Sugar >s rated at 28s Gd. At Bradford merinos are flat, crossbreds firm and unchanged. CHKISTCHTTRCH PRODUCE PRICES. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. Sept. 18. The wheat market U very firm. The few large growers who still have stocks on hand aro in mof-t cases refusing to put a price upon their wheat. Resentment lias l>eon expressed at any _ action being taken to place restrictions i upon the price of grain. It is therefore difficult to obtain wheat. A sale is reported to have taken place at os 1 at a country station. , The oats market is quieter, inquiry ' apparently having eased off, and there ■ aro very few offering. Oatsheaf chaff is also dull of sale. 1 The* potato market is. very dull, and prices are easier. 30* to 35s at conntry stations being all that is now i>rcdMEAT EXPORT. : NEW ZEALAND FREIGHTS. ' CHEAPER THAN ARGENTINE. ; WELLINGTON. Sept. 18. The New Zealand and African Steamship Company have received advice by cable from Loudon stating that the I British Government has fixed the rate of freight on beef aiul mutton from 1 South America to London at three*5 farthings per pound. It is interesting : to note that the present rates from New Zealand aro a half-penny per pound on bert" anil ninc-si.\eenths of a penny on mutton, although the meat Ins to Unearned twice ;is far in the cos* of New Zealand. Even if the suggested war surtax of twenty-live per cent- on freights were imposed, the lates from Now Zealand would still l>e lower than those from South America i to Britain.